Posted on 09/16/2013 7:55:35 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama
And it was settled in DC v. Heller, five years ago.
This textbook is the "2nd revised edition", published in 2010.
There's no excuse for this, other than a blatant attempt to rewrite history.
Sorry, but it was settled even before the Constitution, where it was confirmed as an Inalienable Right. The S.C. does NOT have the final say, We the People have the final say....
Hell, look at the how they have mis-read/applied the ‘commerce clause’ to effectively nullify the rest of the Constitution. A SINGLE sub-clause that turned the rest to practically NOTHING. And you want to give the ‘final say’ to these same unelected dip shits?!
As for the rest, was there a time when the DoE (from the top down) HASN’T been trying to indoctrinate everyone’s children?? Yet, the DoE still stands, and Bush and the GOP actively expanded the same.
ping for later!
It is picking up speed. Some days I am glad I won’t live to see the end result (hopefully).
While I don’t disagree action is needed this has been going on for decades. We have allowed the Western Destroying, anti- white & anti-American Marxist to dictate textbooks and all other kinds of crap in public schools.
I’ve taught APGov & APUSH. They are hard left courses that intentionally mislead students. Don’t let your children take them. They will have a terribly distorted understanding of the Founding and reasons for American government.
“Whether this provision protects the individual’s right to own firearms or whether it deals only with the collective right of the people to arm and maintain a militia has long been debated.”
And it was settled in DC v. Heller, five years ago.
This textbook is the “2nd revised edition”, published in 2010.
There’s no excuse for this, other than a blatant attempt to rewrite history.
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that statement about being “debated” was on the senate webpage.
AND
The White House web page had an incomplete 2nd amendment.
What is particularly infuriating is that this has been going for over a century.
Time (past time) to fish or cut bait.
Indeed. Thanks for the ping!
Their paraphrasing of the first amendment is even worse. There is no ‘separation of church and state’, and the authors attempt to write one in there.
What is DOES say is that there won’t be a ‘national religion’. This was a reaction to the national religions of England, France, and Germany, and the automatic tithing that occurred through the payment of the tithe as a tax.
We Texans pay very close attention when these textbook reviews are being conducted because, on more than one occasion, we have caught a textbook publisher trying to sneak something by the review committee. So Mel and Norma aren't the only ones who keep an eye on these review committees, a lot of us in Texas do and keep them as honest as we can.
In May 2010, the State Board of Education developed a new Social Studies curriculum for Texas schools. Some lawmakers say they’re not willing to shell out millions of dollars for books that are this controversial.
The Fordham Institute—a conservative group from Ohio—gave the new Texas social studies standards a “D” grade. They tell us most states have political bias in books from the left, but in Texas, they say it is heavily from the right.
“Political bias— whether it’s from the left or right— has no place in history standards,” says one Fordham Institute representative.
Under the new curriculum, Texas books would call the U.S. a “constitutional republic” rather than a “democratic state.” Also, the students will learn about leading conservative individuals and groups, but will not be required the same for liberal groups. Perhaps the most controversial, the books will not recognize the phrase “separation of church and state” as constitutional.
http://www.ketknbc.com/news/texas-textbook-standards-raise-more-controversy
American Film Institute’s Silver Docs Festival and begin with “The Revisionaries,” a new film on the Texas textbook battle from director Scott Thurman. Texas teachers, we want to hear from you. How do you teach evolution in your classroom? 800-989-8255. Email us: talk@npr.org. You can also join the conversation on our website. Go to npr.org. Vijay Dewan is executive producer of “The Revisionaries” and joins us from our bureau in New York. Nice to have you with us today.
VIJAY DEWAN: Thanks for having me.
CONAN: And why is this a big deal outside of Texas?
DEWAN: Well, Texas has a very large influence on the rest of the nation. Texas is one of the largest states that decides its curriculum on a statewide level and purchases textbooks on a statewide level. So publishers actually publish their books to the Texas mandates. And Texas buys 110 percent of the enrollment right out of the chute so textbook manufacturers can recoup their investment right off the bat and end up selling those books in other markets.
CONAN: And how does that the process work? The school board doesn’t write the textbooks.
DEWAN: No. The board actually has experts that first write a draft of the standards, and the elected state Board of Education then revises those standards. And the publishers then need to write textbooks that meet the standards that were - are passed by the Board of Education.
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/20/155440679/revisionaries-tells-story-of-texas-textbook-battle
But the textbooks are not the only books they use, and much of the material has nothing to do with the SBOE. There was a recent controversy where a lot of Texas schools got together and started making their own materials and curriculum with no SBOE oversight at all.
The state lawmakers apparently corrected that, but I’m not so sure.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Folks, with some exceptions, they have increasingly morphed into GOVERNMENT INDOCTRINATION CENTERS, designed to train generations of misinformed, low and no information dummies.
If this subversion of the Founders’ vision for this country is not halted — and soon — what sense will it make to save America, the place on the globe, if America, THE IDEA, is eventually murdered as a result of OUR failure to defend that idea.
Over the years, I’ve had my OWN run-ins with the bureaucrats and fellow “citizens” on the dark side who believe that freedom is too dangerous to be allowed to any but them and their elitist associates. You will find my one of my experiences recounted below the history book outrage.
“When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community’.”
Adolph Hitler Speech November 1933.
If Hitler had not been stopped in 1945, he was well on the way to a full generation of young “worshipers” of the sort now being turned out here.
If your kids ARE in government schools, REVIEW THEIR TEXTBOOKS AND WHAT THEY’RE BEING “TAUGHT”.
My Experience with government school PROPAGANDA!
Back in the 80s, one of my boys brought home a school social studies book that was filled with clearly socialist/progressive nonsense.
I made it a point to show up at the next school board meeting.
After the board members took an hour to tell us what a wonderful job the schools were doing “educating” our children, the floor was opened to Q&A from the parents.
I was the second or third to be recognized. I spent a few moments ragging our local member for talking down to one of the previous questioners who had a very legitimate concern about the cost and the safety of all the busing then going on. I apparently got through to her – a classic elitist Radcliffe graduate – as she kept her mouth shut for most of the rest of the meeting.
I then asked any of the 4 board member to explain why it was that the book my son had shown me looked like it had been written in the Soviet Union?
When I finished the question over half the parents applauded and made positive comments.
One of the board members took an incredibly ignorant stab at answering the question. When I said as much, the Superintendent of Schools – a pretty decent and, it turned out, conservative older fellow – stepped up and remarked that he, too, had an ongoing concern in the area of textbooks and went on to offer that the problem was (and still is) that “…most of them are written by folks who teach at liberal Eastern universities.” He continued by saying that while many of those decisions were made at the state level, he asked any parents who knew of alternative publishers to get in touch with him.
When the meeting broke up, over two dozen parents surrounded me and asked if I could steer them to organizations where they could learn more about how to cure the problems they were also having with the government schools.
I was more than happy to do so.
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The deterioration in the system since I went through it 60 years ago is frightening. The ONLY way to turn this around is to do the very thing upon which Ronald Reagan campaigned: ABOLISH THE “PROGRESSIVE” INFESTED DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION and eliminate its forced homogenization – and socialization — of curricula throughout the nation.
There is no way to get this nation back with the government schools cranking out thousands of new little progressives each year. That process made a Barack Obama INEVITABLE. Sadly, unless we make substantive changes, WORSE outcomes await our grandchildren. Sadder still is that the vast majority of these young people will have NO conception of how precious a birthright has been stolen from them.
The schools in America must be returned to the parents and the local communities who have always come together to instruct and nurture their youth without help from an all-powerful, “all-knowing” national government.
Comes now the spectacle of this effort by the educrats in NC to expunge American history before 1870 or so. While their stated goal is to streamline the subject, it’s more likely that they wish to keep their charges from understanding that this nation was born in armed revolution and we fought a nasty war between 1861 and 1865, ostensibly over slavery, but which actually had its roots in the abuse and hypocritical commercial exploitation by one area (the North, where much of the financing of slavery was based) of another (the South).
You stop using them
you take your kids out: church school, private school, home school.
The only was to "fix" tham is to break their backs, financially.
That's what's finally happening with our foods - the scales are tipping as more and more people are educating themselves and going organic. Now, even the big chains are putting in organic sections - and it's on the cusp of seeing the organic choice on the main shelves along with the other foods.
Follow the money - or in the case os teaching our kids, take the money away and THEY will follow if we're dedicated enough to ignore the transitional gnashing of teeth and bluster.
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